[ladycolorado]

The longest I know of, from personal contact in here of an individual having Morgellons disease is 27 years. Also heard of one case from Dr. Schwartz in Florida. I think myself disease has been around longer than this. Morgellons disease is not so much fatal as life shortening. Without treatment, or some type of natural help, can have serious health problems if have it a long time. Depending on co-infections present, can have complications to where not so much fatal can be life shortening and debilitating. Mine is well controlled, but nasty nonetheless. This is nothing to panic about, but to be aware of. Once I read about stages of this disease, stage 4 can be dangerous, as vital organs can fail. In most cases I am talking about 20+ years when disease is fought poorly. Heart attacks, lungs being full of worms and fluid, liver or kidney problems are possible if nothing is done after having disease a long time. Before the IV medicines, I was having MS like symptoms, and having periods od difficulty walking body tremors, etc. So this disease is very treatable, and many ways to fight it: no laughing matter to be taken lightly nonetheless. As far as comprehensive survey, we need statistics done as anonyomous poll where a moderator or Franky can have results from yes or no answers, and things like fiber colors broken down into percentages to get a better demographic. Bubba has alot on their plate, I DID send questions which cover pretty much all the symptoms. So an effricent Morgellons questionaire CAN be drawn up. Just rattling them off in this thread is Too inefficient. Plus some have no desire to have their username shown to do this. Just my two cents anyway, (LC).